Don's diary: French elections
Sunday Arrive in Paris from the French Historical Studies conference in Toronto. The results of the first round presidential elections are due in two hours. Over dinner with another 20th-century...
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Dallas
Former CIA director Robert Gates has emerged as the sole nomination for president of Texas A&M University. Mr Gates, a retiring Republican senator, was director from 1991-93. "
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Conakry
Authorities in Guinea closed the Conakry university campus for a few days to prevent students turning the 21st anniversary of the death of Bob Marley into a marijuana-fuelled anti-government rally.
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Nova Scotia
Jacquelyn Thayer Scott, vice-chancellor of the University College of Cape Breton, is to stand down at the end of June.
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£800 million overtime unpaid each year
* Universities and colleges do 7.2 per cent more teaching and research than they get paid for, funding chiefs said this week. The full economic cost of teaching and research is £800 million more than...
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UCL recovery may rely on redunancies
* University College London has warned that compulsory redundancies "might be unavoidable" as the college is failing to make £11 million of savings this year. Provost Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith is "...
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Colleges chosen for excellence network
* Sixty-nine colleges have been chosen to join the Learning and Skills Council's programme for developing a network of Centres of Vocational Excellence across the UK. The colleges were chosen to...
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Students looks through the Welsh window
* Software engineers at the University of Wales Aberystwyth have found a way to make the Windows 2000 system more accessible: by developing a version in Welsh. Welsh-speaking academics and students...
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Correction
In our league table listing of subjects with top scores for teaching ( THES , May 10), we incorrectly omitted English at Glasgow (RAE 5*); in music, Salford College should read Salford University,...
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Hike in loan interest rate 'would hit worst-off'
Commercial interest rates on student loans would penalise the poor far more than the rich, higher education minister Margaret Hodge said this week. Ms Hodge was called to a special late-night sitting...
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Hodge pleads for more cash in run-up to review
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge this week met prime minister Tony Blair to plead the case for more cash for universities and colleges. Ms Hodge was due to meet Mr Blair yesterday as the...
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The NHS is heralded as Blair's saviour
How will the government widen participation and what are the implications? The National Health Service could be the salvation for universities struggling to meet prime minister Tony Blair's widening...
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'Unwashed' must brush up on their social skills
Universities need to teach working-class students social and "life skills" or many will fail to earn as much as their middle-class peers when they graduate, a report has warned. Research commissioned...
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'Callous' Hodge is berated by union
Furious lecturers' leaders said they could no longer support government plans for widening participation and called higher education minister Margaret Hodge "a disgrace" at their annual council last...
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Cash constraints stymie colleges' bid to deliver participation target
Further education colleges are hampered by funding and quality-control constraints in their efforts to help deliver government targets for expanding higher education, college leaders said this week....